Echocardiography is dispensable in uncomplicated staphylococcus aureus bacteremia

Medicine (United States)

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 182-188

  Khatib, Riad ^a   Sharma, Mamta ^a  

^a ST JOHN HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CARDIAC IMAGING; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART MURMUR; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL BACTEREMIA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; BACTEREMIA; CROSS INFECTION; ECHOGRAPHY; MICROBIOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE;

ADULT; BACTEREMIA; CROSS INFECTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HUMANS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84879835112     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: 15365964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0b013e318294a710     Document Type: Article

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